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Lovell, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82431. It stands on Peterson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lovell quadrangle. 2,243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,832 feet above sea level.

Lovell within Big Horn County

On record in Lovell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lovell fell from 2,360 to 2,243 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,360
20202,243-117 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

102 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Lovell between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,931 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning29
Fireworks7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreBighorn County89
25 September 2004Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBighorn County79
5 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBighorn County70
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreBighorn County79
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBighorn County94
11 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCody Field OfficeEMMA LOU

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lovell: 6 producers, 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CowleyTitanium-Heavy Minerals, Thorium, Zirconium, IronOccurrence1955
Little Sheep MountainStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
UnknownMagnesiteOccurrence
Yellowtail MineUraniumProducer
American Colloid Co MineClayProducer
Lovell Deposit #2BentoniteProducer
Sage Creek MillClayProducer
UnknownBentoniteUnknown
Gypsum Quarry No. 7Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovell in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 8 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLovell$35,000no account filed
June 2006HailLovell$12,000no account filed
June 2006HailLovell$12,000no account filed
May 2018HailLovell-Nickel sized hail covered the ground at the High Country Lodge.
May 2014HailLovell-Nickel sized hail was observed on the north side of Lovell.
May 2014HailLovell-Hail the size of quarters was reported in Lovell.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Lovell-At 1238 MST, a tornado formed 8 miles southwest of Lovell and moved east to 4 miles south/southwest of Lovell before lifting off the ground. This tornado formed over open country resulting in no damage, therefore it was rated F0.
June 2006HailLovell-no account filed
June 2006HailLovell-no account filed
August 1998HailLovell-no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodLovell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cowley5.3 miles8
Byron6.8 miles7
Kane9.9 miles8
Deaver11.6 miles6
Frannie15.3 miles6
Emblem22.9 miles7
Burlington27.0 miles8
Greybull29.8 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LovellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1029882The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1591067. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.